79 High Street (Former Commercial Bank)

David Rhind, 1869 with later additions. 3-storey, 3-bay, L-plan, symmetrical corner sited palazzo style former bank with ancillary ranges to rear. Hoodmoulds and lugged architraved windows; pillastered balustrade to central tripartite and pedimented window; deep bracketed overhanging eaves. Coursed stugged blonde sandstone ashlar; smooth rusticated ashlar quoins. Earlier 20th century marble and granite cladding at ground floor; moulded bracketed string and cill courses at 1st and 2nd floors. Plain 2-storey, 2-bay range with band course to rear and single storey piended section behind. Random whin rubble with sandstone margins to rear elevation. Later 20th century flat-roofed rendered extensions and brick bin store to far left.

Hardwood margin-paned windows and double timber doors with carved detail fanlights to ground floor; predominantly out of character uPVC windows to upper floors, some 4-pane timber sash and case to rear elevation; bars to rear ground floor windows. Low pitched slate roof with valley to rear, corniced ashlar end stack with clay cans. Cast-iron downpipes recessed in string courses.

INTERIOR: 20th century partitions forming new offices to ground floor, converted to flats at upper floors.